13 Delicious Recipes You Can Make in an Almost-Empty Peanut Butter Jar

Everybody is familiar with that tricky situation when you get to the bottom of a nut butter jar. You’ve scooped out all the spoonfuls, but there’s still some stuff there—you can see it! You just can’t really get it out.

Instead of tossing the jar—or worse, getting your hand stuck inside like Winnie the Pooh trying to scrape it clean—use it as a vehicle for other foods. Stir up overnight oats or chia pudding straight inside of it, and those healthy breakfast options will get infused with all the leftover peanut buttery goodness. Plus, it’ll save you on cleanup time since you’ll be using fewer dishes. Or try filling it with a fun, nutty, DIY treat, like a sundae or a decked out hot cocoa. Heck, you can even add some veggies and call it a very resourceful Mason Jar salad.

And the jar doesn’t even have to be a peanut butter jar. These 13 recipes include ideas that work for a bunch of different kinds of nut butters, from sunflower seed butter to tahini. Whether it’s breakfast, dinner, or dessert, these ideas will help you enjoy every last drop of that nut buttery gold.

The salad dressing in this recipe calls for tahini, which is a perfect excuse to serve it in a leftover tahini jar if you happen to have one (though any leftover nut butter jar will work just fine). Get the recipe here.